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  • 2019 - OSA Fellows Pierre Berini University of Ottawa, Canada For scientific achievements that have led to remarkable new insights in the field of nanophotonics, including pioneering contributions to surface plasmon photonics
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to surface plasmon photonics
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Pierre Berini is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada, with research contributions primarily focused on engineering and materials science. Their work spans several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and surfaces, coatings and films.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Optical Coatings and Gratings
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Frequent collaborators include Sabaa Rashid, Jaspreet Walia, Arnaud Weck, Lora Ramunno, and Howard Northfield, each contributing notably over multiple joint publications.

Publication venues where Pierre Berini's work appears regularly include:

  • Optics Express
  • Applied Surface Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Optica

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Berini cover topics such as optical beam steering and metasurfaces:

  • Efficient Mode Transfer on a Compact Silicon Chip by Encircling Moving Exceptional Points, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Optical Beam Steering Using Tunable Metasurfaces, 2022, ACS Photonics
  • Tunable Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Optical Phased Arrays, 2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
  • On the performance of optical phased array technology for beam steering: effect of pixel limitations, 2020, Institutional Repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • Controlling the polarization and phase of high-order harmonics with a plasmonic metasurface, 2022, Optica

Berini's professional recognition includes several fellowships and honors:

  • OSA Fellow (2019), acknowledged for scientific achievements in nanophotonics and surface plasmon photonics
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2018)
  • IEEE Fellow (2011), for contributions to surface plasmon photonics
  • Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

  • Long-range surface plasmon polaritons

    Pierre Berini

  • Plasmon-polariton waves guided by thin lossy metal films of finite width: Bound modes of asymmetric structures

    Pierre Berini

  • Surface plasmon–polariton amplifiers and lasers

    Pierre Berini;Israel De Leon

  • Plasmon-polariton waves guided by thin lossy metal films of finite width: Bound modes of symmetric structures

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  • Amplification of long-range surface plasmons by a dipolar gain medium

    Israel De Leon;Pierre Berini

  • Experimental observation of plasmon–polariton waves supported by a thin metal film of finite width

    Robert Charbonneau;Pierre Berini;Ezio Berolo;Ewa Lisicka-Shrzek

  • Figures of merit for surface plasmon waveguides.

    Pierre Berini

  • Demonstration of integrated optics elements based on long-ranging surface plasmon polaritons.

    Robert Charbonneau;Nancy Lahoud;Greg Mattiussi;Pierre Berini

  • Thin-Film Schottky Barrier Photodetector Models

    Christine Scales;Pierre Berini

  • Characterization of long-range surface-plasmon-polariton waveguides

    P. Berini;R. Charbonneau;N. Lahoud;G. Mattiussi

  • Plasmon-enhanced high-harmonic generation from silicon

    G. Vampa;G. Vampa;B. G. Ghamsari;B. G. Ghamsari;S. Siadat Mousavi;T. J. Hammond

  • Plasmon polariton modes guided by a metal film of finite width.

    Pierre Berini

  • Surface plasmon photodetectors and their applications

    Pierre Berini

  • Laser-induced plasmonic colours on metals.

    Jean-Michel Guay;Antonino Calà Lesina;Guillaume Côté;Martin Charron

  • Time-asymmetric loop around an exceptional point over the full optical communications band.

    Jae Woong Yoon;Jae Woong Yoon;Youngsun Choi;Choloong Hahn;Gunpyo Kim

  • Figures of merit for 2D surface plasmon waveguides and application to metal stripes

    Robin Buckley;Pierre Berini

  • Bulk and surface sensitivities of surface plasmon waveguides

    Pierre Berini

  • Passive integrated optics elements based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons

    R. Charbonneau;C. Scales;I. Breukelaar;S. Fafard

  • Surface plasmon waveguide Schottky detector.

    Ali Akbari;R. Niall Tait;Pierre Berini

  • One-dimensional surface phonon polaritons in boron nitride nanotubes.

    Xiaoji G. Xu;Behnood G. Ghamsari;Jian-Hua Jiang;Leonid Gilburd

  • Efficient and accurate numerical analysis of multilayer planar optical waveguides in lossy anisotropic media

    Chengkun Chen;Pierre Berini;Dazeng Feng;Stoyan Tanev

  • Thermally Activated Variable Attenuation of Long-Range Surface Plasmon-Polariton Waves

    G. Gagnon;N. Lahoud;G.A. Mattiussi;P. Berini

  • Plasmon-polariton modes guided by a metal film of finite width bounded by different dielectrics

    Pierre Berini

  • Biosensing using straight long-range surface plasmon waveguides

    Oleksiy Krupin;Hamoudi Asiri;Chen Wang;R. Niall Tait

  • Theory of surface plasmon-polariton amplification in planar structures incorporating dipolar gain media

    Israel De Leon;Pierre Berini

Frequent Co-Authors

Ke Wu
Ke Wu Polytechnique Montréal
Christophe Caucheteur
Christophe Caucheteur University of Mons
Mohammad Sadegh Abrishamian
Mohammad Sadegh Abrishamian K.N.Toosi University of Technology
Gerd Leuchs
Gerd Leuchs Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Paul B. Corkum
Paul B. Corkum University of Ottawa
Gilbert C. Walker
Gilbert C. Walker University of Toronto
Jacques Albert
Jacques Albert Carleton University
Reuven Gordon
Reuven Gordon University of Victoria
Dazeng Feng
Dazeng Feng Mellanox Technologies (United States)
Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington

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